Play on Words

full length · drama

Minna Von Barnhelm

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · translated by Ernest Bell

11 roles (0M / 0F / 11 any) · approx 147–203 minutes · 5 acts

Royalty-free Public domain — free to read, perform, and adapt. No licence needed.

Characters

Maj. T lead 264 speeches
Min lead 251 speeches
Fran lead 197 speeches
Just supporting 126 speeches
Wer supporting 121 speeches
Land supporting 108 speeches
Ric minor 33 speeches
Lady minor 12 speeches
Ser minor 8 speeches
Count minor 8 speeches
Ord minor 4 speeches

Read the play

Lady _in mourning_, Major von Tellheim, Just

Lady. I ask your pardon, sir.

Maj. T. Whom do you seek, Madam?

Lady. The worthy gentleman with whom I have the honour of speaking. You do not know me again. I am the widow of your late captain.

Maj. T. Good heavens, Madam, how you are changed!

Lady. I have just risen from a sick bed, to which grief on the loss of my husband brought me. I am troubling you at a very early hour, Major von Tellheim, but I am going into the country, where a kind, but also unfortunate friend, has for the present offered me an asylum.

Maj. T. (to Just). Leave us.

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